Predicting monthly precipitation along coastal Ecuador: ENSO and transfer function models

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 2017, Pages 1059-1073

  de Guenni, Lelys B ^a,f   García, Mariangel ^b   Muñoz, Ángel G ^c,d,g   Santos, José L ^a   Cedeño, Alexandra ^a   Perugachi, Carlos ^e   Castillo, José ^b  

^a ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Earth Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

^e Instituto Oceanográfico y Antártico de la Armada del Ecuador   (Ecuador)

^f UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

EID: 84969921811     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-016-1828-4     Document Type: Article

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